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SmithArts at Smith College Smith College Theatre, Music, Dance, Art, Film/Media departments & Smith Office for the Arts (SOFA)

SmithArts represents the work of students and faculty in the Music, Art, Theatre, Dance, and Film/Media departments of Smith College in addition to the Smith College Office for the Arts (SOFA). Smith College Theatre Department Website
http://www.smith.edu/theatre/

Five College Dance Department
https://www.fivecolleges.edu/dance/

Smith College Music Department
http://www.smith.edu/music/

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College Art Department
http://www.smith.edu/art

Smith College Film & Media Department
http://www.smith.edu/film-media

There's ice cream and jazz music at 7:30pm on Wednesday April 16th in the Campus Center Carroll Room!The Smith College J...
04/14/2025

There's ice cream and jazz music at 7:30pm on Wednesday April 16th in the Campus Center Carroll Room!
The Smith College Jazz Ensemble will be presenting a selection of favorite songs performed throughout their 25 year history! Join the celebration at the Campus Center Carroll Room and enjoy complimentary ice cream sundaes and cake (and even dance!) to commemorate this special anniversary occasion! Family friendly – Free and open to the public.

Lots of things happening this week as we lead up to Smith Arts Day on Saturday! Wednesday the Smith College Jazz Ensembl...
04/13/2025

Lots of things happening this week as we lead up to Smith Arts Day on Saturday!
Wednesday the Smith College Jazz Ensemble will be presenting a selection of favorite songs performed throughout their 25 year history in the CC Carroll Room---featuring complimentary ice cream sundaes!
Friday's a packed day!
From 1-5pm in the Hillyer Atrium catch the Student Student Art Sale, kicking off the Smith Arts Day celebrations.
From 4:30-6 in the Jannotta Gallery attend the Closing Celebration of Imaging Spaces In Between, a group senior studio art major showcase, featuring the works of Jamie Marigold Biagiarelli, Ruzhuo Chen, JC Landi, Vera Robinson, Rasa Walter, and Dana Willette.
And Friday evening see the first of two performances by Some of North India’s best-known classical musicians as part of the North Indian Classical Music Festival: Banaras Soul Music!
On Saturday you can see the Orchestra Spring Concert at 3pm in Sweeney Concert Hall, with performances by the student concerto competition winners and a celebration of Aaron Copland featuring narration by President Sarah Willie-Lebreton in Lincoln Portrait.
This Saturday is the second annual Smith Arts Day, a celebration of the artistic and creative community at Smith that features performances, exhibitions, workshops, and more all throughout the afternoon and evening. For more information, visit www.smith.edu/smithartsday.

The Traveling Exhibition Truck: Body Freedom for Every(body) is on campus now next to JMG! Body Freedom for Every(body) ...
04/11/2025

The Traveling Exhibition Truck: Body Freedom for Every(body) is on campus now next to JMG! Body Freedom for Every(body) is a traveling exhibition project that takes place inside a 27-foot box truck featuring the work of more than 100 artists with an emphasis on bodily autonomy, community, and joy. Free and open to the public. April 10 & 11 – Next to John M. Green Hall on Smith Campus
Viewing hours: Thursday 2-6, Friday 10 am -1 pm & 2-6. You don’t want to miss it!

The Traveling Exhibition Truck: Body Freedom for Every(body) is on campus now! Open today and tomorrow next to JMG.  Bod...
04/10/2025

The Traveling Exhibition Truck: Body Freedom for Every(body) is on campus now! Open today and tomorrow next to JMG. Body Freedom for Every(body) is a traveling exhibition project that takes place inside a 27-foot box truck featuring the work of more than 100 artists with an emphasis on bodily autonomy, community, and joy. April 10 & 11 – Next to John M. Green Hall on Smith Campus
Viewing hours: Thursday 2-6 pm / Friday 10 am -1 pm & 2-6 pm. Free and open to the public.

Smith College is excited to host the Five College Multicultural Theatre WORD! Festival, the annual student play-reading ...
04/10/2025

Smith College is excited to host the Five College Multicultural Theatre WORD! Festival, the annual student play-reading festival of new works with multicultural themes. Featuring short plays and excerpts by Aria Acevedo, Pedro Eiras, Mayte Sarmiento, Julio Varella, Campbell Waters, Katie Wilson. Free and open to the public. Tonight! Thursday, April 10 at 7:30 PM in Acting Studio 1. Enter on Green Street and follow the signs!

Thursday, April 10, from 5-6pm in Graham Hall (in Hillyer Hall) we hope to see you at this lecture featuring Jasmine Wah...
04/08/2025

Thursday, April 10, from 5-6pm in Graham Hall (in Hillyer Hall) we hope to see you at this lecture featuring Jasmine Wahi, Co-director and Co-founder of the Project for Empty Space and Body Freedom for Every(body) project. Presented by the Smith College Department of Art. Free and open to the public!

Join us this Thursday at 7:30pm for the Five College WORD! Fest in Acting Studio 1!Smith College is excited to host the ...
04/08/2025

Join us this Thursday at 7:30pm for the Five College WORD! Fest in Acting Studio 1!
Smith College is excited to host the Five College Multicultural Theatre WORD! Festival, the annual student play-reading festival of new works with multicultural themes. Featuring short plays and excerpts by Aria Acevedo, Pedro Eiras, Mayte Sarmiento, Julio Varella, Campbell Waters, Katie Wilson. Free and open to the public!

This Week at SmithArts! This Thursday at 5pm catch a public lecture featuring Jasmine Wahi, Co-director and Co-founder o...
04/06/2025

This Week at SmithArts!
This Thursday at 5pm catch a public lecture featuring Jasmine Wahi, Co-director and Co-founder of the Project for Empty Space and Body Freedom for Every(body) project, happening in Graham Hall (inside Hillyer Hall). The traveling exhibition truck: Empty Space and Body Freedom for Every(body) will be on campus April 10th and 11th!

Thursday night Smith hosts the Five College WORD! Fest in Acting Studio 1, starting at 7:30pm. This annual student play-reading festival features short plays and excerpts by Aria Acevedo, Pedro Eiras, Mayte Sarmiento, Julio Varella, Campbell Waters, Katie Wilson and is free and open to the public!

This Saturday at 7:30pm head over to Sweeney Concert Hall for Lost Loves and Lost Lands with Katherine Saik DeLugan, mez...
04/03/2025

This Saturday at 7:30pm head over to Sweeney Concert Hall for Lost Loves and Lost Lands with Katherine Saik DeLugan, mezzo-soprano and pianist Lemuel Gurtowsky performing Hector Berlioz’s song cycle, Les nuits d'été, Hugo Wolf’s Mignon Lieder and Reena Esmail’s trio, This Love Between Us with violinist Robyn Quinnett. Free and open to the public.

This Friday in Sweeney Concert Hall at 7:30pm acclaimed pianist Christopher Harding, Chair and Professor of Piano at the...
04/02/2025

This Friday in Sweeney Concert Hall at 7:30pm acclaimed pianist Christopher Harding, Chair and Professor of Piano at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance, will give a fascinating lecture-recital to explore the human relationship between Robert and Clara Schumann through Robert's masterful Kreisleriana, op. 16, inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann's writing. Free and open to the public!

Opening Thursday April 3rd! You've got three chances to see the Smith College Department of Dance's Senior Dance Concert...
04/01/2025

Opening Thursday April 3rd! You've got three chances to see the Smith College Department of Dance's Senior Dance Concert. The 3rd, 4th, and 5th at 7:30 pm in Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre, see the amazinf choreography of Evelyn Cauley, Claire Dana, Abbey Fluet, Delia Haston, Grace Su, Taylor Zweil. Tickets are $5-10 at smitharts.ludus.com.

Join the Compaq Big Band and Smith College Jazz Ensemble, featuring Smith Alum Bella Holtz, as they celebrate their gold...
03/31/2025

Join the Compaq Big Band and Smith College Jazz Ensemble, featuring Smith Alum Bella Holtz, as they celebrate their gold and silver anniversaries this Wednesday at 7:30pm in Sweeney Concert Hall! For the past 50 years, the non-profit Compaq Big Band has been impressing audiences all over New England with their grooving 19-piece big band sound! Their repertoire includes both classic and modern arrangements of Great American Songbook tunes and beyond. Smith College Jazz Ensemble commemorates its 25th year with a mix of standards, classic rock, and more! Free and open to the public.

Wednesday April 2nd at 6:00pm in Campus Center 103/104: Audible Loss: New Music and the Crisis of Memory: A Book Release...
03/31/2025

Wednesday April 2nd at 6:00pm in Campus Center 103/104: Audible Loss: New Music and the Crisis of Memory: A Book Release Event
Celebrate the release of Audible Loss: New Music and the Crisis of Memory by Andrea Zarafshon Moore, Assistant Professor of Music at Smith College. Moore analyzes a range of musical works written to commemorate late 20th and early 21st century crises in the U.S—the AIDS crisis, 9/11, and anti-Black violence—and explores how contemporary classical music frames and narrates crises, gives voice to grief, and seeks to make loss audible. This program includes a conversation between Moore and Lisa Armstrong, Professor of the Study of Women & Gender. Sponsored by the Smith Office for the Arts, the Department of Music and the Study of Women & Gender. Free and open to the public.

Tickets are going fast! Opening this Thursday the 2025 Senior Dance Concert runs on April 3, 4, 5 at 7:30 in Hallie Flan...
03/31/2025

Tickets are going fast! Opening this Thursday the 2025 Senior Dance Concert runs on April 3, 4, 5 at 7:30 in Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre. You have three chances to see this show featuring original choreography by Evelyn Cauley, Claire Dana, Abbey Fluet, Delia Haston, Grace Su, and Taylor Zweil. The concert consists of six contemporary pieces with large casts created under the guidance of Artistic Director Rodger Blum, Professor of Dance. Tickets are $5-10 at smitharts.ludus.com. Get your seats now!

Fun things are happening this week at SmithArts!Wednesday at 6pm in Campus Center Room 103/104 catch the Book Release Ev...
03/30/2025

Fun things are happening this week at SmithArts!
Wednesday at 6pm in Campus Center Room 103/104 catch the Book Release Event for Audible Loss: New Music and the Crisis of Memory by Andrea Zarafshon Moore, Assistant Professor of Music at Smith College. Also Wednesday, join us at 7:30pm in Sweeney Concert Hall for the Big Band Anniversary Bash celebrating the the gold and silver anniversaries of the Compaq Big Band and the Smith College Jazz Ensemble in a very special collaborative concert featuring the talented vocalist (and Smith alum) Bella Holtz!
April 3rd, 4th, and 5th at 8pm in Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre the Smith College Department of Dance presents the Senior Dance Concert featuring the outstandign choreography of Evelyn Cauley, Claire Dana, Abbey Fluet, Delia Haston, Grace Su, Taylor Zweil. Tickets are $5-10 at smitharts.ludus.com.
Friday at 7:30pm in Sweeney Concert Hall hear the Piano Lecture-Recital: Robert and Clara Schumann through Kreisleriana when pianist Christopher Harding, Chair and Professor of Piano at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance, gives a fascinating lecture-recital to explore the human relationship between Robert and Clara Schumann.
And last but not least: Saturday at 7:30pm in Sweeney you can catch Lost Loves and Lost Lands with Katherine Saik DeLugan, mezzo soprano with pianist Lemuel Gurtowsky performing Hector Berlioz’s song cycle, Les nuits d'été, Hugo Wolf’s Mignon Lieder and Reena Esmail’s trio, This Love Between Us with violinist Robyn Quinnett. Free and open to the public.

Tonight, Thursday, March 21 at 7:30 in Acting Studio 1 there’s a reading of Aria Acevedo’s MFA Thesis play Nuestro Corri...
03/27/2025

Tonight, Thursday, March 21 at 7:30 in Acting Studio 1 there’s a reading of Aria Acevedo’s MFA Thesis play Nuestro Corrido - A Villanueva Tale. In a small pueblo in south Texas, an Indigenous Mexican family’s traditions and beliefs are challenged when their tribal land is threatened as westerners flee from their own destruction and encroach onto the only home they’ve known. Free and open to the public.

This year Smith College hosts the Five College Choral Festival, a favorite cultural event in the area featuring hundreds...
03/27/2025

This year Smith College hosts the Five College Choral Festival, a favorite cultural event in the area featuring hundreds of students from multiple ensembles representing schools around the Pioneer Valley. Beginning at 5pm in John M. Greene Hall this Saturday, March 29, the Five Colleges perform a variety of pieces including Hark I Hear the Harps Eternal by Alice Parker. Free and open to the public!

JostenLIVE! presents The Wise Guys, a Western Mass acappella group, this Friday at 5pm in the Josten Performing Arts Lib...
03/26/2025

JostenLIVE! presents The Wise Guys, a Western Mass acappella group, this Friday at 5pm in the Josten Performing Arts Library mezzanine.

The Wise Guys perform unpredictable acapella including pop and folk songs and the occasional madrigal, sea chanty or Taylor Swift song. They regularly sing at First Night Northampton and at local churches, country fairs, and retirement communities. They have been singing together since 2012. The recent addition of Smith faculty members Floyd Cheung and Nick Howe among the basses and tenors has made the group wiser, as well as louder. Free and open to the public.

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Smith’s dance, music, and theatre departments are excited to offer you an astonishing range of thought-provoking, inspiring, and just-plain-fun performances. Every semester features mainstage and studio theatre performances, faculty, and student dance performances and a wide range of faculty and student music performances. From new play readings to new works of choreography by graduate dance students to a series of informal concerts at lunchtime, we invite you to join us!